Windgather Press Imprint
Windgather Press specialises in publishing accessible and attractive books on landscape history, landscape archaeology, and the history of Britain’s countryside and further afield, including garden history. The publications are designed not only for those professionally engaged in the subject, but also those with a serious amateur interest in landscape research.
The name comes from Windgather Rocks, a prominent gritstone edge on the Cheshire/Derbyshire Border, close to where the press was originally founded in Bollington. Well-known amongst climbers and walkers, the edge overlooks a landscape of seventeenth and eighteen century field-walls and scattered farms typical of the western Pennine edge.
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Bloody Marsh. A Seventeenth-Century Village in Crisis [Paperback]
Peter Warner (Author)
Regular Price: $24.95
Special Price: $9.98
ISBN: 9780953863013
Published by : Windgather Press
`A story of rising poverty, enclosure, accusations of rape, and the brutal confrontation of the landed and the dispossessed'. What began as a dispute over grazing rights in the village of Walberswick in Suffolk in April 1644, led to the death o... .... Learn More -
Suffolk's Gardens and Parks: Designed Landscapes from the Tudors to the Victorians [Paperback]
Tom Williamson (Author)
Regular Price: $29.95
Special Price: $14.98
ISBN: 9780953863006
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The parks and gardens of the 17th century through to the Victorian era were objects of status and pride as well as being functional areas of the tamed landscape which could be used for leisure and for growing food. Tom Williamson discusses gard... .... Learn More -
Village, Hamlet and Field [Paperback]
Carenza Lewis (Author); Patrick Mitchell-Fox (Author); Christopher Dyer (Author)
$29.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780953863037
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New research into the development of rural settlements. These studies focus on the period 850-1200 when the basic patterns were established. Incorporates a great deal of new research, mostly based on detailed regional surveys in the east Midla... .... Learn More -
The English Model Farm: Building the Agricultural Ideal, 1700-1914 [Paperback]
Susanna Wade Martins (Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9780953863051
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During the Agricultural Revolution, the landowners of Britain constructed an enormous range of picturesque or classical buildings on their farms, inspired by Enlightenment ideals. These model farms, a phenomenan unique to Britain, are a signifi... .... Learn More -
Oak: A British History [Paperback]
Esmond Harris (Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9780953863082
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Oak has always held pride of place amongst trees in Britain. For centuries, its durability, strength and attractiveness have made it the timber of choice. When the British state was forged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these qua... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Yew [Paperback]
Robert Bevan-Jones (Author)
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Special Price: $14.98
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ISBN: 9780954557539
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The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish landscape, an evergreen impression of immortality. For hundreds of years it has marked holy places for travelers. In this book Robert Bevan-Jones pa... .... Learn More -
Landscape Encyclopaedia: A Reference to the Historic Landscape [Hardback]
Richard Muir (Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9780954557508
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The countryside of the British Isles provides an enormously rich resource to those interested in researching past cultural landscapes. This book is the essential reference for the landscape studies researcher, whether amateur or professional. ... .... Learn More -
Landscape Encyclopaedia: A Reference to the Historic Landscape [Paperback]
Richard Muir (Author)
Regular Price: $35.00
Special Price: $28.00
ISBN: 9780954557515
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The countryside of the British Isles provides an enormously rich resource to those interested in researching past cultural landscapes. This book is the essential reference for the landscape studies researcher, whether amateur or professional. ... .... Learn More -
The Humber Wetlands: The Archaeology of a Dynamic Landscape [Paperback]
Robert Van de Noort (Author)
Regular Price: $35.00
Special Price: $14.98
ISBN: 9780954557546
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The lowlands of the Humber Basin form one of Britain's most extensive wetland areas. This book reveals for the first time the buried ancient landscapes which lie under the peat. It is the result of a ten-year English Heritage funded project, wh... .... Learn More -
The Peak District: Landscapes Through Time [Paperback]
John Barnatt (Author)
Regular Price: $30.00
Special Price: $14.98
ISBN: 9780954557553
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The Peak District -Britain's first National Park - has some of Britain's richest archaeological landscapes. When this book was first published in 1997, in Batsford's English Heritage series, it revealed them for the first time in all their dive... .... Learn More
